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Angiosperm vs Phanerogam - What's the difference?

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In botany terms the difference between angiosperm and phanerogam

is that angiosperm is pertaining to the angiosperms while phanerogam is any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).

As an adjective angiosperm

is pertaining to the angiosperms.

angiosperm

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.
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  • As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
  • * 1997 , Valentin A. Krassilov, Angiosperm Origins: Morphological and Ecological Aspects , page 134,
  • The notion of magnoliaceans as the most primitive living angiosperms , justified or not, does not mean that all their characters, including multilacunar nodal anatomy and the lack of tannins, are primary.
  • * 2009 , Xin Wang, 3: New Fossils and New Hope for the Origin of Angiosperms'', Pierre Pontarotti, ''Evolutionary Biology: Concept, Modeling, and Application , page 55,
  • With all these features, it is pretty easy for one to identify an angiosperm'. This is a very normal and common practice for neobotanists. However, the situation becomes complicated when you go back to the early history of ' angiosperms .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) pertaining to the angiosperms.
  • See also

    * Angiospermae * Angiosperms * Magnoliophyta * Magnoliopsida

    phanerogam

    English

    (Spermatophyte)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).
  • * 1977 , Francesco D'Amato, Nuclear Cytology in Relation to Development , page 8,
  • Among phanerogams (seed plants), only two orders of gymnosperms, the Cycadales and the Ginkgoales, have ciliated motile sperm cells; all others (higher gymnosperms and angiosperms) have nonmotile sperm cells or sperm nuclei.
  • * 2003 , Burkhard Frenzel, History of Flora and Vegetation During the Quaternary'', Karl Esser, Ulrich Lüttge, Wolfram Beyschlag, Jin Murata (editors), ''Progress in Botany , Volume 65, page 591,
  • The stomach contents of the Selerikanka horse contained 116 taxa: 96 phanerogams', 20 cryptogams. Among the ' phanerogams were 12 tree species, 14 species of shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, as well as 72 species of herbs and very small dwarf-shrubs.
  • * 2005 , Mark Nuttall, Encyclopedia of the Arctic , unnumbered page,
  • Generally speaking, the ranges of most cryptogams are geographically broader than those of phanerogams , and many more species are widely disjunct over the world.

    Synonyms

    * (plant that produces seeds) spermatophyte

    Coordinate terms

    * cryptogam

    See also

    * angiosperm * gymnosperm * Phanerogamae

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